A song of endless flames : Libretto Publishers : 9789785819670 : 01 May 2021 : When Ben Okri said that poets are the barometers for measuring the overall health of society, perhaps he had these poets (Nosakhare and Karofi) in mind. With delightful language and assured voices as their paint and brush, these poets have created a mural containing gory images of contemporary Nigerian society. As in Picasso's Guernica, they have articulated in vivid colours, the emotions of grief, loss and bitterness. In A Song of Endless Flames, we see the duet manifesting as a confluence: double embers of flame, glowing, rising, hissing to all at once, burn and purify the soul of man and society. These poets are Fire and Brimstone, Lightning and Jolt.-Umar Abubakar Sidi is the author of The Poet of Dust.Karofi and Collins, in a song of endless flames remind us of the forgotten purity of the language of poetry and the aesthetics of metaphors, of imageries and wisdom, weaved in lush philosophical pontificat